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We could easily say those slips were always docks from 1 Jan 1920 in SIM terms and it would have no effect at all. All the ships built on the original slips could still have been built in those docks and if nothing got refitted in those intervening years 25 sim years then there is no advantage at all. Historically it changes nothing. Admittedly it changes future behaviour but its hardly a freebie and with only 5 sim years left for Oz its not a great advantage.

Mm... well, fair enough. If the proposal is to turn this

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Sydney, NSW (Cockatoo Island)
Type 3 Slip:
Type 2 Slip:

into this

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Sydney, NSW (Cockatoo Island)
Type 3 Drydock:
Type 2 Drydock:

And say that this was in fact the starting infrastructure for Australia (albeit never used as such), then I withdraw my objection.

One random question/comment from glancing at the updated encyclopedia entries: is this destroyer class the Aclarity or the Alacrity? I presume the former is just a misspelling drawn from the original entry, and it actually ought to be Alacrity.

There are a lot of typos and misspellings sprinkled throughout the Australia data, and I'm correcting them as I find them, but I also plan on giving all the RAN ship names a thorough thrice-over once I have more of the basics nailed down. The Encyclopedia isn't done, I just needed to get that started so I could try condensing the 15 browser tabs I have open tracking down all the missing data in one place. Known issues so far include;

Australia's still-building flagships being named Wombat and Wallabie - Renamed Australia and New Zealand. Previous New Zealand becoming New Guinea.
There's no sim reports for the Dauntless and Firefly class DDs....I'm assuming they're straight repeats of the Alacrity class.
Albury class includes both Armidale and Armadale. I'm assuming one is a typo and needs revision.
Can't find any data on a pair of seaplane subs Foxy supposedly built.
There's also no sim report for the 4 MWF Minewarfare ships, so I'm assuming they're minelayer variants of his multipurpose ships.
Newest Destroyers and the Flight Deck Oilers were not named
Several ship names need to be cross-checked for conflicts (We try not to have multiple ships with the same name within the Commonwealth. I've also tried hard not to overlap with the USN)

A more ambitious project is to get ship graphics done up to my RCN standards, but that (understandably, I think), is more of a marathon project than a sprint.

Shin, I quickly sorted through some of the Australian entries in the encyclopedia, with the objective of helping find duplicates, misspellings, etc. Here is my issues list thus far. I expect you already know about many of these. I can add to the list as I spot new issues...

Known Duplicates:
-- RAN aviation cruisers Erebus and Terror replicate RCN Erebus and Terror
-- RAN Enterprise replicates HMS Enterprise and USS Enterprise
-- RAN Lion duplicates RN HMS Lion.
-- If you intent to rename the old New Zealand to New Guinea, then you should note that's the name of one of the Sydney-class cruisers.
-- RAN HMAS Augusta replicates USS Augusta. I also checked for Albany, but apparently the US isn't using it at the moment.
-- RAN HMAS Newcastle replicates RN HMS Newcastle.
-- RAN HMAS Jaguar replicates RN HMS Jaguar

the Sydney class New Guinea was the previous New Zealand I mentioned, I already adjusted those.

We objected to Enterprise when he built it and were ignored. We got to make fun of it in one of the Fleet Problems, at least. I was fairly sure there was an HMS Intrepid to conflict with the other one he built, but hadn't double-checked yet. I'm also surprised Endeavor and Endurance aren't in the RN somewhere. I'm debating what to do about Erebus and Terror (Canada and Oz both have historical ties to those names, and while the Canadian ones were built first, they're not particularly notable)

I also know he self-solved at least one of the name conflicts by eventually buying the previous ship (Dauntless).

p.s. - did you catch the request for a fresh upload of the Big Ass Map?

my concern was mostly that the first 3 links I dug up for it were dead, and it'd be nice to have it more easily accessible; trying to get a better feel for what Oz's territory encompasses and all that. Photobucket and Imageshack's decline have gutted a lot of old posts, unfortunately.

iirc, a cia.gov map was used as the base source for the WW map originally.

my concern was mostly that the first 3 links I dug up for it were dead, and it'd be nice to have it more easily accessible; trying to get a better feel for what Oz's territory encompasses and all that. Photobucket and Imageshack's decline have gutted a lot of old posts, unfortunately.

iirc, a cia.gov map was used as the base source for the WW map originally.

Ah. Thought that either errors had crept in or updates are needed. I usually refer to a copy of the map I keep on my hard drive and hadn't noticed that the existing links had gone bad.

The Lion clash is my bad, I named my newer battleship forgetting that the older Lion was still in RAN service. To solve this I don't mind renaming my ship to a V name to match her near-sisters, which in hindsight would have made more sense at the time.

I'm mostly done making sense of where Oz was at the start of 1945. The biggest discrepancy I have at the moment is his OOB listing two seaplane subs that I can't find any stats for, or any record of them being built. Unless someone knows something I haven't been able to find, I'm going to assume they don't exist.

relevant notes;
- I've decided that several of Foxy's names that didn't work for me would be the names they were orders as, but completed and christened under whatever final names I designate (this is mostly to overcome the usual superstition against arbitrarily renaming ships)
- Everything is based at Sydney right now because I haven't decided how to split up and disperse the fleet yet.
- 5th Sloop squadron is Foxy's 1928 Multipurpose sloops, 4 of which were built as mine warfare ships. He never named them, but the SS report had them listed as Osprey class, so I attempted to name them along those lines.
- I plan to recommission several ships as Royal New Zealand Navy ships for prestige/political purposes. The RAN/RNZN will continue to be operated as a joint service, however.

I never understood the whole NZ as part of Oz thing. I think its likely there would be some sloop assets in NZ.

...I've often wondered about that, but I never thought I'd get any sort of coherent answer in the past.

What do their government arrangements look like? Is New Zealand its own dominion in a defense partnership with Australia, or is it viewed as part of Australian territory? I can... technically see why they were grouped for sim purposes, but I'd expect that at some point the Kiwis would demand their own home government to reflect their distinct circumstances from Australia proper.

Not a high necessity to answer this question immediately, but I am rather curious about how things would work, outside of the military being a joint service as referenced above.

The inclusion of New Zealand as part of Australia seems to stem from shortly after the sim was created and as a byproduct of the original intention that the USA and GB superpowers would be NPCs, and so the decisions on how best to carve up the Empire into playable units had an infulence.

However saying that there are inconsistencies, the biggest being that the Cleito Treaty and the WW Versailes Treaty were both clearly signed by an New Zealand as a Dominion. So when the sim started that was the intention that got waylaid for player grabs. Its not vital to sort, but I think the status needs clarifying. Militarily, I agree there is much merit in having New Zealand partnered with a federated Australian force due to costs and manpower and the few direct threats facing them.